Solving time 13:47 Not too bad a time for this, though the NE corner felt rather slow – 6,8,10,12,18 in particular. Across 1 Algernon SWIN(BURN)E 6 MICAH – (1,C) in Ham rev. 9 SEAL OFF … Read more “23,985”
Mephisto 2500 Mike Laws
I’m doing this for Robert who is currently indisposed Congratulations to Mephisto on reaching 2,500. I guess Mephisto had reached about number 250 when I finished my first. Throughout the standard has been high and … Read more “Mephisto 2500 Mike Laws”
Times 23,984
Solving time : 20 minutes, most of which was spent rounding up a small number of recalcitrant answers in 9 ac, 22 ac and 27 ac. I got off to a flying start down the … Read more “Times 23,984”
23983
Solving time: 56 minutes Took me quite a while to get going on this. I got the long answer at 1D straight away, but none of the across answers from this came at first go. … Read more “23983”
Jumbo 767 (July 19th)
Solving time 28:53 Anything under 30 minutes is good for me – in fact this is only about the third time I’ve managed that, so this must have been at the easier end of the … Read more “Jumbo 767 (July 19th)”
ST 4287 (27th July 2008) – You Can Leave Your Hat On
Solving time: 22 minutes, and following a common pattern with the Sunday – around 8 minutes to do all but two clues, then a lot of head scratching and uncertainty to get it finished up. … Read more “ST 4287 (27th July 2008) – You Can Leave Your Hat On”
Times Saturday 23976 (26th July)
Solving time 17:30 I thought I was heading for a fairly quick time for this one, until I got down to three left in the SE corner (25A, 22D, 23D). That’s when I ground to … Read more “Times Saturday 23976 (26th July)”
23981
My solving time was about an hour. This was more my sort of puzzle than yesterday’s as I got onto the setter’s wavelengh quite quickly and made good progress. The hold up at the end … Read more “23981”
Times 23980 – I should have known
Solving time : After 35 minutes and with an embarrassingly small amount filled out, I resorted to the aids, crawled home(I hope) in 49 minutes, one guess and a few peeks at Bradfords. There’ll probably … Read more “Times 23980 – I should have known”
Times 23,979 – Thirty Something
Quite a mixed bag of clues ranging for the clever (7Down) to the not-so-bright ((5Down) to some which I cannot parse ((6&17Across). ACROSS1 REELEDOFF Rev of ODE (poem) LEER (nasty look) + FF (very loud)6 … Read more “Times 23,979 – Thirty Something”